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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Virtual Environments and Package Management in Python
  python
  Comments
• Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
  plt
  Comments
• How much logic should I keep at the database vs. application layer?
  ask databases testing
  Comments
• The Voids of Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• Microcontroller-modified microphone
  show c++ hardware
  Comments
• Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
  go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1
  rust
  Comments
• littlefs: A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
  c hardware
  Comments
• The wild west of Windows command line parsing
  windows
  Comments
• X Access Control Extension Specification (XACE)
  security unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Building for the 99% Developers
  practices
  Comments
• Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
  a11y practices
  Comments
• Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD
  c openbsd
  Comments
• Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
  networking
  Comments
• Uniting the Linux random-number devices
  linux
  Comments
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  nix
  Comments
• My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD
  freebsd mac
  Comments
• Garage - An open-source distributed storage service
  distributed rust
  Comments
• How I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed (because the old one worked fine)
  plt python
  Comments
• Haskell Error Messages: Come on
  haskell
  Comments
• Go 1.18 Release Candidate 1 is released
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• redbean – single-file distributable web server
  programming web
  Comments
• Lorinda Cherry died recently
  historical person unix
  Comments
• PoC||GTFO 0x21
  pdf security
  Comments
• What are your favourite small internet protocols?
  ask networking
  Comments
• Haskell2020 Is Dead, but All Hope Is Not Lost (2019)
  haskell
  Comments
• Zig
  compilers zig
  Comments
• Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
  api web
  Comments
• Alternative Regex Syntax
  programming
  Comments
• Cheaply writing a fast interpreter
  video compilers
  Comments
• The FreeBSD Boot Process
  freebsd
  Comments
• More Enum Types
  rust
  Comments
• Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays
  perl
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)
  programming
  Comments
• A Review of Shader Languages
  graphics
  Comments
• A Formal Model of Checked C
  c formalmethods
  Comments
• Lineiform, a meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Structurally-Typed Condition Handling
  plt
  Comments
• vaporup/ssh-tools: Making SSH more convenient
  devops
  Comments
• Thousands of npm accounts use email addresses with expired domains
  javascript security
  Comments
• Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
  security
  Comments
• Interactive Loop Optimization
  ai c c++ performance python
  Comments
• OBS Studio 27.2 on Flathub, get it while it’s hot
  release
  Comments
• New Chrome 0-Day Bug Under Active Attack – Update Your Browser ASAP
  browsers
  Comments
• If It Compiles It Works
  audio elm plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• quBSD: Qubes-like containerization using FreeBSD jails and bhyve
  freebsd security
  Comments
• Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
  android virtualization
  Comments
• Assertion Functions in TypeScript
  javascript
  Comments
• How To Design A Chat Bot
  design haskell
  Comments
• Single binary executable packages
  programming
  Comments
• Project Servo: Technology from the past come to save the future from itself [2010]
  pdf historical rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A reckless guide to OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• Go’s Version Control History
  practices programming vcs
  Comments
• An Accessible Introduction to Type Theory and Implementing a Type Checker
  compilers programming
  Comments
• MikroTik Authentication Revealed
  reversing security
  Comments
• The Blue Box And Ma Bell
  hardware historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Devs Use Closed Software
  rant
  Comments
• Writing Your Own Sudo
  unix
  Comments
• SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER
  historical virtualization
  Comments
• The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle
  programming
  Comments
• Wicked Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game written using HTML5 Canvas and AudioContext
  show games web
  Comments
• File-driven testing in Go
  go testing
  Comments
• A walk through lightweight blogging
  performance web
  Comments
• Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…
  video math programming science
  Comments
• Plain Org v1.2 released
  show emacs ios mobile
  Comments
• Understanding Attributes, Dicts and Slots in Python
  python
  Comments
• Short history of ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 in Fedora
  linux
  Comments
• How much disk space you can save by using INT4/INT instead of INT8/BIGINT?
  databases performance
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sustainability with Rust
  c rust
  Comments
• You Don't Know Gif - An analysis of a gif file and some weird gif features
  graphics
  Comments
• Plugins in Rust: Getting our Hands Dirty
  performance practices rust
  Comments
• Dino 0.3 Release Video calls and conferences - encrypted and peer-to-peer
  release
  Comments
• The case against serverless
  devops
  Comments
• The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
  pdf programming
  Comments
• Faster Python calculations with Numba: 2 lines of code, 13× speed-up
  performance python
  Comments
• What Fortran does better than C-like languages
  c c++ fortran
  Comments
• Yet another explanation of C/C++ pointers
  c c++ reversing
  Comments
• How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Raytracing on a Graphing Calculator (again)
  video assembly graphics
  Comments
• Low latency Linux kernel for industrial embedded systems – Part I
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other
  devops
  Comments
• A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
  programming
  Comments
• A Hairy PostgreSQL Incident
  databases debugging
  Comments
• How to write idempotent Bash scripts
  programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• GDPR compliance for 0.5 USD per month. Plus VAT
  privacy python
  Comments
• A Shader Trick
  graphics
  Comments
• JSON-LD is ideal for Cloud Native technologies
  programming
  Comments
• Solving Advent of Code 2021 with Rust before Python can start
  rust
  Comments
• Code that Doesn’t Rot
  programming
  Comments
• "Super Imposter" shader: my journey to make a high quality imposter shader
  graphics
  Comments
• WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from all Major Web Browsers
  graphics web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dare to ask for more #rust2024
  rust
  Comments
• Using RSA Securely in 2022
  cryptography security
  Comments
• GNU Doesn't Care About Your Agency
  linux philosophy rant
  Comments
• Racket v8.4
  lisp release
  Comments
• Introduction to qbe
  video compilers performance
  Comments
• Phantom: Persistent Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• SNES Development Part 1: Getting Started
  assembly games
  Comments
• How Postgres Stores Rows
  databases
  Comments
• UNIX: On the Path to BSD
  historical
  Comments
• Unison in 2021, 2022 and beyond: year in review and future plans
  plt release
  Comments
• The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro
  openbsd
  Comments
• Downcasting in Rust
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• R7RS Index
  lisp
  Comments
• The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility
  databases
  Comments
• XFCE Cupertino Way
  freebsd linux mac
  Comments
• User Story
  programming
  Comments
• Finding unknown sensors with I²C probing
  hardware
  Comments
• Safer entropy accumulation in Linux 5.18's RNG
  cryptography linux
  Comments
• Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex?
  linux osdev
  Comments
• google/zx 5.0.0
  javascript release
  Comments
• Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! (2008)
  browsers historical
  Comments
• There's no such thing as Plain Text
  video programming
  Comments
• QBE IR for Rust
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
  networking performance
  Comments